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edited by Frederick R. Sidell, Ernest T. Takafuji, and David R. Franz (Textbook of Military Medicine, Warfare Weaponry and the Casualty, part 1), 721 pp, with illus, gratis to qualified applicants, Washington DC, Office of the Surgeon General, 1997. (To order: fax request on letterhead attention Mr Wallace, 202-782-7555 or mail attention Mr Wallace, Borden Institute, Textbook of Military Medicine, MCCS-GBI, Building 11, Room 1-117, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5001.)

JAMA. 1998;280:1199.

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In the early 1980s, I interviewed a group of Hmong villagers who had recently crossed the Mekong River into Northern Thailand. They had reported being attacked from the air with a yellow powder that, they said, rapidly killed most of their livestock and several villagers. They then decided to trek across many miles of rugged hostile country to seek refuge in Thailand. During their march, they were again attacked and machine-gunned from the air, losing several children and elders who could not rapidly run for cover. I was shocked and dismayed by the graphic description of these events, particularly those suggesting chemical or biological agents, and expressed this to my Thai military interpreter, who only nodded and said, "What is the difference in how you do the murdering."

General interest in chemical and biological weaponry has been kindled by recent events in the Middle East and Japan and the perception . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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